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On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Morgan Jones <morgan@morganjones.org> wrote: > At least in CentOS/Redhat, there are Perl modules that aren't available as RPMs > or are just out of date as RPMs. This leaves the developer/sysadmin the choice of > installing from CPAN, potentially causing the problem you describe, or living with > what's available as an RPM. On Gentoo it isn't always as bad - there are a lot of developers that use Gentoo and for whatever reason things like modules tend to be well-represented. I just wrote some software using pygit2 and was surprised that it was available in Gentoo, but not ubuntu 10.10 (which starcluster is based on). Tools like g-cpan that convert cpan modules into packages are in some ways the best of both worlds. That makes cpan not quite as useful as a native package, but still better than a tarball. Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug